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Artist
- Name:
- Devéria, Achille
- Dates:
- 1800-1857
- Country:
- France
Illustration
- Subject:
- Narratives, Ornaments & patterns
- Technique:
- Wood engraving
- Engraver:
- Thompson, Charles
- Format:
- Landscape (wider)
- Source:
- Robarts Library, the Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- Œuvres complètes de La Fontaine
- Author(s):
- La Fontaine, Jean de
- Publisher:
- Paris: Baudoin Frères, 1826
- Open Library:
- View record.
Description
Democritus is represented as an old, although muscular man with a beard sitting under a tree and looking thoughtfully at the skull he holds in the hand, ignoring the bystanders staring and pointing at him.
The caption reads in the original French: Démocrite et les Abdéritains.
Keywords: 17th century, 1820s, 19th century, antiquity, black & white, fable, Fables de La Fontaine, frame, history, skull, thoughtful
